I can’t believe that Elon Musk is leaving Doge, the government department he named after a tired and basic meme that most of the internet had moved on from around a decade ago. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end,” Musk wrote this week (capital letters: model’s own), “I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful government spending.” Oh man. “Thank you for the opportunity”?! At some level you have to salute Donald Trump’s ability to turn even the world’s richest man into an Apprentice candidate who leaves in week four after completely wiping out in the hotdog stand task.Musk arrived in government promising to slash spending by $2tn. He leaves it a mere $1.86tn short of that target, even by his own estimations. Meanwhile, the president’s new tax bill is set to add $2.3tn to the deficit. I imagine Musk thought his government finale would be a spectacular extravaganza – “you’re welcome, Washington!” – involving 2,000 chainsaw-wielding chorus girls. Instead, it’s a tweet. And yes – we DO all still call them tweets.
Ironically, the thing that Musk has been most stunningly effective at slashing is his own reputation. Think about it. He arrived in Trump’s orbit as a somewhat mysterious man, widely regarded as a tech genius, and a titan of the age. He leaves it with vast numbers of people woken up to the fact he’s a weird and creepy breeding fetishist, who desperately pretends to be good at video games, and wasn’t remotely as key to Space X or Tesla’s engineering prowess as they’d vaguely thought. Also, with a number of them apparently convinced he had a botched penile implant. Rightly or wrongly convinced – sure. I’m just asking questions.
Funny and yet..chaotic.-greenman
A botched penile implant? LOL. Seriously?
Posted by Sia on May 30, 2025, 10:22 pm, in reply to "Musk Comes Up Short" ADMIN
That's the first I've heard of that. However, his reputation will be forever tainted by his callous association with dt and doge. Also with the knowledge that HE actually didn't invent nor actually build Tesla OR SpaceX. He bought other people's work and brilliance, just like he bought Twitter from its inventors.
The Brits are good at those kind of insults - 'Oh, I didn't say THAT, did I?' lol
He IS a penile implant. A cheap imported S. African one at that!-greenman
Musk is to the gamer world what trump is to golf
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on June 1, 2025, 11:33 am, in reply to "I hadn't heard that one." ADMIN
Musk, by his own name or one of the many sock puppets he uses- (and who does that?) is well known in the gamer world as a cheater and exaggerator trying to impress all as a gaming genius. He comes across like another well known sock puppet perpetrator attempting to be the all knowing expert and authority, bragging and boasting about his wins, and being caught repeatedly at cheats.
He's the stupid old man who never grew up, hitting on all the younger women, trying to boast and impress like he's one of the really desirable males who can sleep with anybody. Of course he's done that too.
Trump claims to recognize Musk for genius, but that is as flawed as his perception of his own genius. It has to take a special kind of stupid to convince yourself you're something you're not. Both are grossly mentally ill, and in any kind of position of authority and power, dangerous. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
on May 30, 2025, 7:34 am
